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In the midst of election year political fervor, email announcements have sparked controversy ahead of this year's Gallatin County Republicans Lincoln-Reagan Dinner scheduled to take place in May in Bozeman, MT. The emails, sent by organizers of the...
by chills1953
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 03:52 PM PDT
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Republicans frequently use the phrase “the crisis at the border”. I don’t know whether or not there is a true crisis at the border; but I’d say that the ongoing nationwide problem of frequent mass shootings is a definite crisis, and immigrants have...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 05:54 PM PST
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The regressives are always searching for a new bogeyman. In this case, they found a bogeywoman. We are being asked to be afraid of Taylor Swift. I don’t believe that Taylor Swift is out to get me, but if she was, I would let her have me.
by Perlinator
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 11:53 PM PST
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They're at it again although they never really stopped. As the 2024 national election campaigns gear up, Republican Party schemers and their right-wing friends are doubling down on their phony claims that Critical Race Theory -- a set of ideas studied...
by rlegro
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 08:13 AM PDT
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The last time we checked in with Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, he was fundraising on of the profoundly unscientific claim that Democratic officials wanted to “grant abortions up to 52 weeks.” Many of you will know from grade school that...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 09:42 AM PST
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A 50-foot Christmas tree was set on fire in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. The tree was a part of the Fox News building’s display in midtown New York City. Just after midnight, Dec. 8, 49-year-old Craig Tamanaha was reportedly observed climbing...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Dec 08, 2021 at 10:26 AM PST
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President Joe Biden isn't a hot seller in the right-wing circles where Republicans need to stoke a lot of anger heading into 2022. The economy is recovering faster than most analysts predicted, in large part due to the cash infusion from the $1.9...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 10:46 AM PDT
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It is hard, even as Republicans fight back against the idea of teaching history, for them to deny that some parts of history just happened. They have also taken time to fight back against the idea that new, different infrastructure is a positive,...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Mon Jun 28, 2021 at 12:12 PM PDT
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How many times have you seen a live crab in a market waiting for a grisly death at the hand of its Human oppressors? How many times have you seen a lobster with its claws meaninglessly tied shut as they are forced to watch the boiling alive and ripping...
by iarnstein
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on Thu May 20, 2021 at 10:31 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Koch Uneasy as Republicans Also Want Dark Money Groups/Fatcats to be Unable to Buy Elections What do the GOP have left but fear mongering, intimidation, lies, bigotry and voter suppression to keep their base from learning the truth? The Georgian state election laws have shown how far the GOP will go to continue their power grab....
by List maker NOT List taker
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on Mon Mar 29, 2021 at 12:55 PM PDT
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The chart pictured is a nightly tally from John Hopkins University. Should you have any COVIDiots among your family or friends, this next animated map is stunning to watch as it helps to visualize the rise of COVID cases per capita...
by List maker NOT List taker
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on Tue Nov 17, 2020 at 01:12 PM PST
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In 2018, it was the nonexistent caravan threat. In 2020, it's antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters who are supposedly threatening the American way of life and, according to Trump, white suburbia in particular. Trump has simply recycled some...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Sep 09, 2020 at 09:38 AM PDT
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Many of us saw that insanely weird OH Trump speech in which the Cheeto-in-Chief accused former VP of being “against God,” and claimed that a Biden presidency would “hurt God” and “hurt the Bible.” It was bizarre even by Trump’s standards. At...
by SouthernLeveller
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on Fri Aug 07, 2020 at 09:47 AM PDT
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From EngagingPeace.com engagingpeace.com/...
by jkandra
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on Tue Jun 16, 2020 at 12:23 PM PDT
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The idea that only candidate X can beat Trump is the bogeyman of 2020. We hear about it constantly, and evidence like the last-minute deciding in New Hampshire and the weird effectiveness of Bloomberg’s advertising deluge suggests people really are...
by jccayford
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on Wed Feb 19, 2020 at 04:21 PM PST
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The question of Medicare-for-All raising taxes is fearmongering. When Democratic candidates like Pete Buttigieg demand that Elizabeth Warren admit to higher taxes, they are trying to make voters fear her plan, not to clarify it. Decades of Republican...
by jccayford
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on Wed Oct 16, 2019 at 02:28 PM PDT
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When hijacked planes hit their targets on the morning of September 11, 2001, the American Psychological Association (APA) sprang into action. Within hours, through its disaster response network the APA mobilized expert practitioners and worked with the...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Mon Apr 22, 2019 at 06:54 AM PDT
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Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Thu Mar 21, 2019 at 04:48 AM PDT
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Republicans have frequently attacked progressives as socialists, as people who want the government to control everyone and inhibit free enterprise and entrepreneurship. It is clear that Trump intends to argue this in his re-election bid. Though the...
by ProfWriter101
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on Sat Mar 16, 2019 at 10:31 PM PDT
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A complex and horrific conspiracy targeting undocumented immigrants has been uncovered in South Florida, and it relies heavily on Donald Trump’s cruel immigration policies. A group of seven criminals in Davie, a town of 91,000 that’s roughly 25 miles...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Feb 09, 2019 at 03:36 PM PST
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